Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
PLINY THE ELDEROn a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.
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How many things… are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
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Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.
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In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer’s judgment.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.
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As touching peaches in general, the very name in Latine whereby they are called Persica, doth evidently show that they were brought out of Persia first.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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Man naturally yearns for novelty.
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Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
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Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.
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Many dishes bring many diseases.
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The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.
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